21 h. ago 'We're treated like hardened criminals for taking our children out of school during term time'

An outraged mum-of-two has spearheaded a national campaign against school holiday fines and says the Government’s school attendance crackdown is "reckless, punitive and negligible - and is criminalising parents"

Events

3 d. ago Major supermarket drops kids meal prices to just 60p in 205 stores throughout May

The offer will run throughout May, including through the half term school break

Economics

4 d. ago 'I take my children on holiday during school term and have saved £15,000'

She insists that she isn't going to stop because it's not affecting their education

Economics

5 d. ago Irish teenager sentenced to eight years for Islamist attack on army chaplain

The priest hugged his attacker in the courtroom after the sentence was handed down.

Events

2 w. ago Turning up at school drunk, knocking a child to the floor and kissing a pupil: The full list of school staff disciplined or banned last term

These are all the offences for which teachers around Wales have been struck off over the last term

Events

2 w. ago Scotland school holidays 2025: Full list of term dates and breaks

Schoolchildren will be enjoying their last holiday lie-ins this weekend 🐰

Politics

2 w. ago The Diamond Heist review – Guy Ritchie’s thrilling tale of the failed Millennium Dome jewel robbery

This three-part documentary about the attempt to steal hundreds of millions of pounds’ worth of diamonds is pacey and stylish – but it definitely didn’t need to glamorise the real-life violenceI suppose the wonder is that it has taken Guy Ritchie so long to get around to telling the story of the Millennium Dome robbery, in which – way back at the turn of the century, children – a group of south-east London criminals ram-raided a national joke in pursuit of the 203-carat Millennium Star diamond worth £200m, which De Beers had unaccountably agreed to display in the capital’s gangster heartland.Strictly speaking, Richie himself is not telling it; the three-part documentary The Diamond Heist comes from Oscar and Emmy award-winning company Lightbox and is executive produced by Ritchie. But the subject matter is so perfectly him that any meaningful separation in your mind as you watch it collapses quicker than a Greenwich exhibition venue’s shutters under the weight of a JCB driven at spe...

Events

2 w. ago Mother taken to court and fined after her child missed two days of school following term break when family got stranded abroad

The Stoke-on-Trent woman, unnamed for legal reasons, defended the absence by arguing that her daughter's health condition necessitated the trip.

Society

2 w. ago Mother taken to court and fined after her child missed two days of school following term break when family got stranded abroad 

The Stoke-on-Trent woman, unnamed for legal reasons, defended the absence by arguing that her daughter's health condition necessitated the trip.

Society

2 w. ago Mum fined by school after being stranded abroad during term time holiday

The parent, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared before North Staffordshire Justice Centre after her child was taken out of primary school for a trip abroad.

Politics

3 w. ago John Swinney urged to make it criminal offence to not report sex abuse of children

Labour MP Joani Reid has written to the First Minster, calling on him to consider making it mandatory for those working with children to report abuse, warning Scotland “is not immune” to grooming gangs.

Events